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ORGANIZED,         -         -         JANUARY  20,  1873. 


CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS 


Twentieth  Ward   Institute. 


CONSTITUTION: 

Article  1. — The  Association  shall  be 
kn-    vn  as  the  Twentieth  Ward  Institute. 

Article  2. — All  persons  of  good  moral 
character,  willing  to  subscribe  to  the  rules  and 
regulations  of  the  Institute,  shall  be  deemed 
eligible  for  membership. 

Article  3. — The  officers  shall  consist  of  a 
Board  of  thirteen  Directors,  elected  by  ballot,  by 
a  majority  vote  of  the  members  of  the  Institute 
and  who  shall  choose  from  their  number  a 
President,  a  First  Vice  President,  a  Second  Vice 
President,  a  Secretary,  an  Assistant  Secretary, 
a  Treasurer  and  a  Librarian. 

Article  4. —The  Directors  shall  be  elected 


"*  CONSTITUTION. 

annually  and  in  the  following  manner:  At 
least  three  days  before  the  day  of  election,  the 
Secretary  shall  supply  each  member  with  a  list 
of  the  names  of  all  the  members;  each  member 
shall  place  a  mark  opposite  the  name  of  his  or 
her  choice;  the  votes  shall  then  be  counted  by 
a  committee  appointed  for  the  purpose.  The 
members  receiving  the  largest  number  of  votes 
shall  be  declared  elected. 

Article  5. — One-fourth  of  the  entire  mem- 
bers shall  constitute  a  quorum  at  all  sessions  of 
the  Institute,  in  case  of  the  acceptance  of  any 
business  transactions  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 
Any  number  of  the  members  of  the  Institute 
shall  be  considered  a  quorum,  when  assembled 
for  purposes  of  mutual  improvement. 

Article  6.—  A  majority  of  the  board  of 
directors  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the 
transaction  of  buisness,  and  all  business  tran- 
sactions shall  be  decided  by  a  majority  vote 
of  said  quorum. 

Article  7. — Any  vacancy  occurring  in  the 
Board  of  Directors  may  be  temporarily  filled  by 
appointment  of  the  President,  until  the  next 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  when  nomi- 
nations shall  be  made  by  the  members  thereof, 
which  nominations  sliall  be  voted  upon  by 
ballot  at  the  next  regular  meeting  of  the  mem- 
bers. . 

Article  S.— This   Constitution,  as   well  as 


BY-LAWS. 


the  by-laws,  may  be  amended,  as  often  and 
as  much  as  may  be  deemed  advisable,  but 
only  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  a  quorum  of  the 
members. 


B  Y  -  L,  A  W  S  . 

Article  1. — Any  person  desiring  to  become 
a  member  of  the  Institute  must  have  the 
written  recommendation  of  two  members  when 
he  or  she  may  be  admitted. 

Article  2. — The  admission  fee  shall  be 
Fifty  cents  and  each  individual  on  presentation 
to  the  Secretary ,*of  the  Treasurer's  receipt,  for 
that  amount,  shall  receive  from  the  Secretary  a 
certificate  of  membership.  Each  male  member 
over  eighteen  years  of  age  shall  pay  a  monthly 
contribution  of  twenty -five  cents.  The  month- 
ly contribution  of  ladies  and  youths  under 
eighteen  years  of  age  shall  be  ten  cents  each. 

Article  3. — All  sessions  of  the  Institute 
shall  be  opened  and  closed  with  prayer,  and 
shall  be  conducted  according  to  the  rules  of 
parliamentary  usage,  so  far  as  known. 

Article  4.— It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
President  to  be  present  or  to  see  that  one  of  the 
Vice  Presidents  or  a  Director  is  present,  to 
preside  at  all  sessions  of  the  Institute. 

Article  5.— It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Secretary  to  take  all  minutes  and  keep  record!-'. 


6  BY-LAWS. 

He  shall  also  attend  to  correspondence,  as  he 
may  be  directed  by  the  President  and  Board  of 
Directors. 

Article  6.— Tt  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Treasurer  to  receive  all  moneys  of  the  Institute, 
for  which  he  shall  give  receipts  at  the  time 
of  receiving  the  same;  except  for  the  monthly 
contributions,  of  which  he  shall  keep  a  list. 
He  shall  only  disburse  the  funds  of  the  Institute 
on  an  older  signed  by  the  President  and  coun- 
tersigned by  the  Secretary.  At  the  annual 
meeting,  or  whenever  required  by  the  Board,  he 
shall  give  a  detailed  exhibit  of  the  financial 
affairs  of  the  Institute. 

Article  7. — The  Librarian  shall  superin- 
tend the  purchasing  of  all  books,  periodicals, 
etc.,  under  the  direction  of  the  Board,  and  shall 
keep  a  register  of  the  same. 

Article  h. — Any  member  of  the  Institute, 
deemed  guilty  of  impropriety  of  conduct,  or 
violation  of  the  spirit  and  letter  of  the  rules 
and  regulations,  may  be  expelled  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  the  members  present;  but,  before 
action  shall  be  taken  on  the  expulsion  of  any 
member,  the  person  chaiged  with  misdemea- 
nor shall  be  notified  of  such  intended  action. 

Article  9.— It  shall  be  deemed  the  duty  of 
all  the  members,  to  defend  the  principles  of 
truth,  justice  and  mercy,  and  to  religiously 
abstain    from    sneaking    evil   of   their    fellow- 


HISTORICAL  DATA.  7 

members,  or  lightly  of  anything  deemed  sacred 
by  them. 

Article  10.— In  case  of  the  resignation  or 
expulsion  of  any  member,  the  party  resigning, 
or  being  expelled,  shall  be  required  to  deliver 
up  his  or  her  certificate  of  membership  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  Institute. 

Article  11.—  The  non-attendance  of  any 
member,  longer  than  three  months,  from  the 
meetings  of  the  Institute,  and  the  neglect  of 
the  payment  of  his  or  her  monthly  dues,  shall 
render  him  or  her  liable  to  expulsion  unless 
a  satisfactory  excuse  be  rendered  to  the  Board 
of  Directors. 

Article  12. — All  moneys  paid  to  the  Treas- 
urer, also  books  or  any  other  articles  acquired 
by  donation  or  purchase  immediately  become 
the  property  of  the  Institute,  and  cannot  be 
reclaimed  by  any  member  ore  r  party  sub- 
scribing, donating  or  paying  the  same. 


HISTORICAL   DATA- 

The  Twentieth  Ward  Institute  was  organ- 
ized January  20th,  18/3,  its  object  being  the  in- 
tellectual, moral,  social  and  religious  improve- 
ment of  its  members. 

The  following  were  elected  a  Board  of  Di- 
rectors or  executive  committee  for  the  first 
year  (1873)— John  Nicholson,  President;  S.  W. 


8  HISTORICAL  DATA. 

Sears,  First  Vice  President,  John  Sharp  Jr. 
Second  Vice  President;  W.  H.  To vey, Secretary; 
C.  R.  Savage,  Treasurer;  Karl  G.  Maeser  | 
Librarian,  and  W.  L.  N.  Allen,  James  Sharp, 
R.  Patrick,  John  Daynes,  Oliver  Hodgson] 
John  Squires,  Jr.  and  R.  Maeser,  Directors.  ■ 

Bishop  John  Sharp  and  his  Councilors, 
Elders  W.  C.  Dunbar  and  W.  L.  N.  Allen, 
are  ex-officio  honorary  President  and  Vice 
Presidents  of  the  Institute.  They  are  also 
actual  members. 

On  the  20th  of  January,  1874,  the  officers 
elected  for  the  succeeding  year  (1874)  were: 
John  Nicholson,  President;  W.  L.  N. 
Allen,  First  Vice  President;  G.  M.  Ottinger, 
Second  Vice  President;  W.  H.  To  vey,  Secretary, 
H.  Pusey,  Assistant  Secretary;  C  R.  Savage, 
Treasurer;  Karl  G  Maeser,  Librarian;  and  S. 
W.  Sears,  George  Reynolds,  O.  Hodgson,  Her- 
bert J.  Foulger,  Joseph  F.  Simmons  and  C.  W. 
Stayner,  Directors. 

On  account  of  other  pressing  duties,  which 
precluded  the  possibility  of  his  attending 
promptly  to  those  connected  with  the  offices  of 
Director  and  Secretary,  W.  H.  Tovey,  on  Feb- 
ruary 12th,  1874,  tendered  his  resignation  jof 
those  positions.  On  Thursday,  February  26th, 
1874,  James  Sharp  was  elected  to  fill  the 
vacancy  thus  created  in  the  Board  of  Directors, 
and  Herbert  J.  Foulger  was  elected  Secretary. 


HISTORICAL  DATA.  9 

During  the  first  year,  1873,  the  Institute 
was  composed  entirely  of  gentlemen,  but,  at 
the  beginning  of  the  second  year  (1874)  ladies 
were  declared  eligible  for  membership. 

The  meetings,  of  the  Institute  which  have 
been  generally  well  attended, have  produced  the 
most  gratifying  results,  public  free  lectures  are 
frequently  delivered  under  its  auspices. 

The  Organization  at  this  date,  March  26th, 
1874,  numbers  125  members,  105  of  whom  are 
gentlemen  and  20  ladies.  A  bookcase  has  been 
specially  made  and  a  Library  commenced  for 
the  benefit  of  the  members  of  the  Institute, 
and  which  comprises  now  about  sixty  vols, 
mostly  valuable  works; 

It  is  the  understood  duty  of  all  members 
to  interest  themselves  in  obtaining  contributions 
of  Books  for  the  Library  and  to  donate  works 
themselves,  as   far  as  they   are  able. 

On  March  23d,  1874,  S.  W.  Sears,  on  account 
of  other  pressing  duties,  lesigned  his  position  as 
Director,  and  John  Squires,  Jr.,  wps  elected, 
March  26th,  to  fill  the  vacancy  thus  created  in 
the  Board. 


